LOVE FOR SALE

Created on 05/04/2003
Latest update on 04/10/2021

Artist: Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians
Author: Cole Porter
Label: Victor
Year: 1930

Vocal: The Three Waring Girls as prostitutes in Cole Porter musical The New Yorkers. This song was banned on the radio.

Covers:

1931:

Libby Holman [nicknamed The Dark Purple Menace; musical vamp, married much older Zachary Reynolds, heir of the Reynolds tobacco imperium; he died soon after, reveiling her menacing reputation (Love For Re-sale)]

1931:

Ben Selvin

1939:

Hal Kemp

1940:

Jack Teagarden

1941:

Hal Kemp

1942:

Spike Jones

1942:

Lionel Hampton

1943:

Benny Carter

1947:

Sidney Bechet

1947:

Jane Russell

1949:

Artie Shaw

1950:

Tommy Dorsey

1950:

Charlie Parker

1952:

Anita O'Day

1953:

Stan Kenton

1954:

Charlie Parker

1954:

Billie Holiday [with Oscar Peterson on piano]

1954:

Dinah Washington

1955:

Art Tatum

1956:

Patti Page

1956:

Lionel Hampton

1957:

Ella Fitzgerald

1957:

Tony Bennett

1958:

Miles Davis

1958:

Jo Stafford

1959:

Mose Allison

1959:

Shirley Bassey

1959:

Ramsey Lewis Trio

1960:

Mose Allison

1961:

Stanley Turrentine

1961:

Julie London

1961:

Marvin Gaye

1962:

Jackie Wilson

1962:

Mel Tormé

1962:

Sergio Mendes

1963:

Shirley Horn

1963:

Arthur Lyman

1963:

Annie Ross

1963:

Dave Brubeck

1964:

Astrud Gilberto

1965:

Eartha Kitt

1965:

Aretha Franklin

1969:

Hildegard Knef [also in German as Gern bereit]

1969:

Les McCann

1970:

Liza Minnelli

1973:

George Benson

1975:

Jane Birkin

1977:

Chet Baker

1977:

Astrud Gilberto

1977:

Boney M

1977:

Manhattan Transfer

1977:

Peggy Lee

1978:

Tony Bennett [and in 2021 in duet with Lady Gaga]

1980:

Kenny Burrell

1981:

Elvis Costello

1984:

Marc Almond

1985:

Simply Red

1989:

Dr. John

1990:

Fine Young Cannibals [on Cole Porter tribute Red Hot + Blue]

1991:

Udo Lindenberg [als Palais d'Amour]

1992:

Ellis Marsalis

1993:

Mary Coughlan

1999:

Harry Connick Jr.

2001:

Helen Schneider

2004:

Vivian Green [in film De-Lovely]

2006:

Jacqui Naylor

2006:

Amanda Lear

2012:

Viktor Lazlo

2013:

Jamie Cullum [with Roots Manuva]

2017:

Seal

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